What's the difference between beholder and spectator?

Beholder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who beholds; a spectator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (2) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
  • (3) The engines, gearboxes and even the doors now have a complexity that sees them constructed elsewhere, but the transformation on this line of the dull sheen of aluminium parts into a moving vehicle at the other end is still something to behold.
  • (4) Behold "The Spire", a 398ft needle penetrating the sky; symbol of Dublin's thrusting modernity (or, cynics suggest, the grip heroin holds on some parts of the city).
  • (5) The Queen of the Night by Marc Behm Behm, an American settled in France, wrote one of the great novels of obsessive detective fiction, The Eye of the Beholder.
  • (6) Behold this from our deputy first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, doing her best Michael Howard impersonation: "Right now, convicted prisoners who are serving prison sentences do not get to vote, and I do not consider that there is a good argument for changing the position for the referendum."
  • (7) On Obama's mandate for climate change action Mandates are sometimes in the eye of the beholder but I think all who look at these circumstances should agree that president Obama does have a mandate, should he choose to use it, to act boldly to solve the climate crisis, to begin solving it.
  • (8) The extent to which the hard right will go to perpetuate their views, and frankly, their prejudice, is a sight to behold.
  • (9) Greece's determination in this World Cup was a thing to behold and, their reputation unfairly traduced, they brought a fair bit of quick-breaking flair to the table too.
  • (10) The best contributions tell the truth, or if not the truth (a vexatious and flexible concept, given history’s tendency to be somewhat in the eye of the beholder) – then at least truth according to the person providing the story.
  • (11) Described as Blencathra's "shining beacon" by Alfred Wainwright, who also wrote that the sight of it at close quarters was sufficient "to make a beholder forget all other worries, even a raging toothache", Sharp Edge is a Lake District accident blackspot.
  • (12) Its headline was to be “Behold the demons we have unleashed”.
  • (13) And when we get together, lo and behold, we always remember it, it’s always there for us.
  • (14) "Lo and behold when Michael McCaskey called me and offered me this job it's kind of how it turned out.
  • (15) But for all that it is the awkward and prickly child of UK rave, the tenacity, love and enthusiasm within the grime scene is something to behold.
  • (16) Lo and behold, Charlotte Hole, second from the left in the front row in this picture, totes what the Mail says is a £1,100 Mulberry handbag.
  • (17) The faux-outrage from the right about the AWU cozying up to employers is something to behold, given that conservatives have long insisted the Labor party distance itself from precisely those unions that win the best outcomes for their members.
  • (18) When they occur, they are delightful to behold and should be cherished.
  • (19) I went in person on my lunch hour and, lo and behold, was told for the very first time that my party designation can only ever be changed during November each year,” he explained.
  • (20) Lo and behold, I had this Trump table down there,” Snover said.

Spectator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (2) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
  • (3) In addition he should inform the teams and spectators about the medical coverage.
  • (4) Ryan said in an article for the China Spectator site, for which he reports from China, that he too had posted pieces about Guo.
  • (5) Officials had predicted that the 95,000-seat FNB Stadium would be filled and some spectators turned away but, in the end, it only reached about two-thirds capacity.
  • (6) Clegg was sent a complaint in March 2011 but there was no reply or investigation, it is alleged in this week's Spectator.
  • (7) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
  • (8) The Week rose 6.4% year on year to 154,512; and the Spectator hit a record circulation of 77,146, up 2% on the year.
  • (9) The commentator and Spectator contributing editor Peter Oborne, who will speak at Wednesday’s protest, said: “This is not a matter of right or left.
  • (10) Under Russian law, gay people attending the games as athletes or spectators will not be allowed to "spread propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to anyone under 18.
  • (11) It only looks like a $100m movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I think Britons of Poulter’s generation – now in their late teens and early 20s, spectators while the economic fiascos of recent years shredded their odds of financial stability in the future – are more inclined to be aware of money, and more inclined to be aware of its reckless use.
  • (12) So said the Dispatches programme’s author and presenter, Fraser Nelson , who also happens to be editor of the Spectator during what is turning out to be one of its more ideological phases – as distinct from the High Tory scepticism of many decades.
  • (13) In later life the star had to give up drinking due to ill health but the greatest acting triumph of his later years was playing another notorious drunk, and O'Toole drinking buddy, Spectator columnist Jeffrey Bernard in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
  • (14) West Ham United have increased the matchday capacity at the former Olympic Stadium to 60,000 in response to spectator demand.
  • (15) Spectators were so closely packed that emergency services had to gather up a macabre jumble of body parts, and the final toll was never confirmed.
  • (16) Nelson said: "Against the cacophony of the 24-hour news era, there has never been a greater need for what the Spectator offers: wit, style, mischief, elegance of thought and independence of opinion.
  • (17) I don’t want to talk about the referee because I don’t want to be punished again [following his two-game touchline ban last season].” City have made an official complaint to Uefa regarding the presence of spectators at the match and an official from the European game’s governing body was also monitoring the contingent during the game.
  • (18) i lent brett ratner my 2nd (of 2) parms dorz cos he wantd 2 impress women and I was worrid he mite get bbq sauce on it agen lol You've said your films are intended as "polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator."
  • (19) There was a smaller group of black spectators from a nearby township, determined to show they could now stand where they pleased.
  • (20) Johnson's schoolfriend and Bullingdon mucker, Darius Guppy, leapt to Johnson's defence in the Spectator correct , though I use the word "defence" loosely.

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